FAA, NTSB investigating plane crash in Port LaBelle
Published: May 7, 2021 4:34 PM EDT
Updated: May 7, 2021 4:36 PM EDT
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The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating a plane crash that left one person dead and another injured in Hendry County on Thursday afternoon.
Investigators with the agencies will try to determine why the twin-engine passenger plane, a Piper Aerostar 600, barely got off the ground after takeoff and why it went down, striking trees but missing the Church of Good Shepard Episcopal Church.
It could take several weeks or months for investigators to issue a final report on why the plane crashed.
NOAA Hurricane Hunters risk their lives to keep public informed
Published: May 7, 2021 3:56 PM EDT
Updated: May 8, 2021 7:26 AM EDT
They risk their lives and fly into the eyes of hurricanes.
In fact, NOAA Hurricane Hunters are the only organization allowed to actually fly into thunderstorms, tropical storms and hurricanes.
And they do so to bring back data in order to help cities prepare for what’s coming.
“We like to believe we are one piece of the puzzle,” said Jack Parrish, senior flight director with NOAA Hurricane Hunters.
Everything in the airplane is strapped well down, Parrish said.
“It is certainly no commercial flight,” Parrish said.
A review by the State Attorney’s Office has found that a Central Elementary School principal in Clewiston did not commit a crime when she paddled a 6-year-old in front of the child’s mother.
Principal Melissa Carter and Cecilia Self, a clerk at the school, were recorded by the child’s mother as Carter spanked the child with a wooden paddle three times.
The Office of the State Attorney’s Office for the Twentieth Judicial Circuit, which covers Hendry County, released a memo late Friday.
The paddling occurred on April 13 after the child damaged a computer.
According to the memo, the child’s mother gave an initial account of the incident to the Hendry County Sheriff’s Office on April 14.
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Paul Puletti, a former Hendry County school superintendent, is responsible for the ban on corporal punishment in the school district he used to lead. That’s why Puletti was surprised to see the video of Melissa Carter, Central Elementary School principal, paddling a 6-year-old student while a school clerk, Cecilia Self, held the girl down. “I […]